But now help god to quenchen al this sorwe, So hope I that he shal, for he best may; For I have seyn, of a ful misty morwe 1060 Folwen ful ofte a mery someres day; And after winter folweth grene May.
To him that longeth honour and noblesse, Upon non other shulde nat he awayte; For of his own so moche hath he the lesse 475 That of other moch folweth the conceyt.
For which she folweth yow ful bisily, Right so the see desyreth naturelly To folwen hir, as she that is goddesse Bothe in the see and riveres more and lesse.
And though that Salomon seith, that "he ne fond never womman good," itfolweth nat therfore that alle wommen ben wikke.
Folweth Ekko, that holdeth no silence, But evere answereth at the countretaille; 1190 Beth nat bidaffed for your innocence, But sharply tak on yow the governaille.
For him that folweth al this world of prees, Er he be war, is ofte y-leyd ful lowe.
The firste finger is the fool lookinge of the fool womman and of the fool man, that sleeth, right as the basilicok sleeth folk by the venim of his sighte; for the coveitise of eyen folweth the coveitise of the herte.
Up-on which misericorde folweth pitee, in parfourninge of charitable werkes of misericorde.
Who folweth Cristes gospel and his fore, 1935 But we that humble been and chast and pore, Werkers of goddes word, not auditours?
For sevene synnes ther ben, That assaillen us evere; The fend folweth hem alle, And fondeth hem to helpe.
Fynd foure freres in a flok That folweth that rewle, Than have I tynt al my tast, Touche and assaye.
And of this sentence folweth it, that thanne ben shrewes constreined at the laste with most grevous torment, whan men wene that they ne be nat punisshed.
Certes,' quod I, 'I ne may nat denye ne withstonde the resouns purposed; and I see wel that it folweth by strengthe of the premisses.
And also look on shrewes, that ben the contrarie party of goode men, how greet peyne felawshipeth and folweth hem!
Seestow nat thanne what thing folweth alle the thinges that I have seyd?
And in this manere itfolweth thanne, that al 60 thing that faileth to ben good, it stinteth for to be and for to han any beinge; wherfore it is, that shrewes stinten for to ben that they weren.
For this thing that I shal telle thee now ne shal nat seme lasse wonderful; but of the thinges that ben taken also it is necessarie;' as who seyth, it folweth of that which that is purposed biforn.
And in him-self he lough right at the wo Of hem that wepten for his deeth so faste; And dampned al our werk that folweth so The blinde lust, the which that may not laste, And sholden al our herte on hevene caste.
Thanne folweth it, that thilke thing that by his nature is dyvers fro soverein good, that that thing nis nat soverein good; but certes, that were a felonous corsednesse to thinken that of him that nothing nis more worth.
Next this folweth the Cercle of the Dayes, that ben figured in maner of degrees, that contienen in noumbre 365; divyded also with longe strykes fro fyve to fyve, and the nombres in augrim writen under that cercle.
Men sein that every love hath drede; So folweth it that I hire drede, 6060 For I hire love, and who so dredeth, To plese his love and serve him nedeth.
For where a man is obstinat, Wanhope folweth ate laste, Which mai noght after longe laste, Till Slouthe make of him an ende.
His herbe is Aristologie, Which folweth his Astronomie: The Ston which that this sterre alloweth, Is Sardis, which unto him boweth.
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